Joann Parks

Joann is a business coach, trainer and consultant with eighteen years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. As the manager of Sales, Customer and Technical Training & Development.for the Xerox Corporation, she managed 150 people in developing training for worldwide product launches. In this and other Xerox positions in Marketing Communications and Quality, she successfully built, coached and managed teams through both successes and difficult transitions. She currently coaches managers in how to balance flexibility and control as they manage the professionals in their department and, in how to understand and respond to the complexities of interdepartmental and vertical communication.

Joann's clients have included Toyota Motor Sales, Hitachi Software, Celestica, Transamerica, and Computer Associates. Areas of focus are management and leadership skills, building visibility and support for ideas, presentation skills, correlating personal and professional values, advanced personal development work, and portfolio building.

Joann uses a systems point of view to help clients navigate the organizational environment to the maximum benefit of the company (results/productivity) and themselves (personal satisfaction). This includes identifying their own and others' self-interests, understanding the underlying normative structures and dynamics of the organization, and determining their own and others' character strengths and types.

Joann attended the College of William and Mary and George Washington University and has a Bachelor's degree in English and Anthropology.

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